Grabbing Github PR from Jira ticket using REST API?

[IlkoMihov]

Hello,

I am looking for a way to get the link/number of a github PR that is associated with a Jira ticket. Is there any way to do that using the REST API?

Thank you!

Ilko

[ibuchanan]

Welcome to the Atlassian developer community @IlkoMihov,

Short answer no. We talk about those APIs as open DevOps APIs; however, these are currently only available to POST events but not to GET (or query) the resulting data. The idea of APIs for consuming the data was also discussed on this thread:

Connected DevOps is here

Jira already provides out-of-the-box features which lets you connect DevOps related information (like PR status from code repository, feature flag related data, builds and deployments data from CI/CD) to your Jira issue. Say, you want to connect data from a DevOps solution to your Jira project. What if an integration that you are looking for is not available? Connected DevOps lets you build that. What is Connected DevOps? Thousands of software development teams use Jira to plan and track their…

At this time, I’m not aware of any public issues or roadmap items to prove that we’re considering the item. However, I will be sure your question gets to the right product manager. To that end, could you explain how you wanted to use URL or ID of a GitHub PR from the Jira REST API?

[AleksandarDimitrov]

Hi @ibuchanan

I’m not the original poster, however, I, too, ran into this issue. I’ll try to explain my use-case: I’d like to integrate Jira & Github into our internal automation and analytics. Jumping from a Jira Issue directly to the PR would allow me to gain insights about an issue’s PR (comments, time to close, commits, etc.). By combining Jira’s REST API with Github’s GraphQL API, we could integrate very seamlessly with our internal tooling.

The only option to do that now is to scan all our Github projects & PRs for backlinks to Jira, and populate a database. That’s pretty cumbersome!

[Dario_B]

There is a Feature Request open for this issue that used to have a work-around that does not seem to be working anymore:

• [JSWCLOUD-16901] Provide a public REST API endpoint to get development info associated with an issue - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.

You may want to vote and watch the above feature request, in order to be updated on the progress or on any new workaround that might be added in the future.